British World War 2 traditional movie is on TV this Bank Holiday Weekend | Films | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Back in 1949, Ealing Studios launched their comedy traditional Whisky Galore! starring Basil Redford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood and Gordon Jackson.

Based on the 1947 novel of the identical title, the story is a real account of a World War 2 occasion.

Scottish islanders off the coast of the Outer Hebrides have run out of whisky attributable to wartime rationing.

However, they’re overjoyed to find that the SS Politician has run aground and the shipwreck comprises 50,000 circumstances of the booze.

The whisky fanatics meet their match, although, as it’s a Sunday and the native teetotallers alongside the Customs and Excise males object to the salvage.

Whisky Galore! was shot on the island of Barra, the place poor climate meant the shoot overran its 10 week stint by 5 weeks and filming went £20,000 over price range. Released in 1949, it got here out the identical 12 months as Passport to Pimlico and Kind Hearts and Coronets, making it among the best years for Ealing comedies. In 1999, the movie was voted the twenty fourth best British movie of all time by the BFI.

A remake of the identical title, starring Gregor Fisher, Eddie Izzard, Sean Biggerstaff, and Naomi Battrick, was launched in 2016.

Whisky Galore! is on BBC Two at 10:20am on Bank Holiday Monday, and its 2016 remake is streaming on BBC iPlayer